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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Ebola Outbreak
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:50:52 -0700
On 10/17/2014 8:30 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
But take your clip board with you :-)

*http://tinyurl.com/phanbt7*

      News services and commentators everywhere are screaming FOUL! over that.

But that's their job in contemporary America, to create FUD, whether justified 
or not.

It's the very sort of inconcern that is going to turn this into a major global 
health crisis.

Has anyone considered that the clip board guy knew more that most of us do? 
From an email about the subject from our City:

"Ebola is not easy to contract. The virus is not airborne, like measles or the flu. Travel history to the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea remains the leading risk factor. A person would have to come into contact with an infected person's bodily fluids while that person is exhibiting the symptoms of infection, such as high fever, vomiting, or diarrhea."

It appears, from what little I've heard about it, that the health care workers who contracted it may have been inappropriately casual in caring for a recently West African patient with a with an undiagnosed disease. Sloppy procedures and technique by health care providers should not necessarily be cause for widespread panic.

I recently went to the funeral of a friend. He died of liver failure from an accidental stick with a needle used on a Hep C patient during his nursing work. It's very sad, but I was not afraid I was going to catch it.

I had an employee and friend many years ago who contracted AIDS early on. I did my research and determined he was simply no danger to those working around him. But I knew how fearful the general public were becoming and how he would be shunned, scapegoated and quite likely fired if his condition became public knowledge. He worked, damn well, doing what he enjoyed, until near the end, about five years, as I recall. And guess what? No one at that workplace caught AIDS or 'Gayness' from him. I miss him, but know I made his last years far better than they would otherwise have been.

Fear mongering has a long and inglorious history, remains alive and well, and no more useful that ever for any good. "is going to turn this into a major global health crisis." sounds to me suspiciously like uninformed fear mongering.

I don't follow the news in general, but a quick search shows even the major outlets have caught up with the facts. <http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/ebola-fear-factor-why-america-needs-viral-reality-check-n228331>

I find it generally useful to keep things in perspective and gather information 
when in doubt.

Remain Calm Moose

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